silent thunder

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  1. What does awareness mean?

    awesome question... going to chew on that. Thanks!
  2. Unbearable bliss as a result of bouncing my legs

    Bouncing is awesome for the lymphatic system. It also induces clarity and joy in my sense of self.
  3. What's the easiest way to live in the present?

    I'm fully in the present every time I smash myself with a hammer.
  4. Not much money to be made curing, or preventing... but treating? Loads of cash there. Big pharma is sick and could use a dose of real medicine.
  5. addiction to air, food and water

    most definitely...
  6. Feeding your demons

    cherished and straw dogs all will return to the source the action of tao
  7. Marble Gardens & Fish Ponds

    No way... don't apologize, that was a very cool surprise. edit: and now in haiku don't apologize that was a very cool way to view your garden
  8. Is the TTB exhausted yet....?

    ooh well played...
  9. Marble Gardens & Fish Ponds

    So I just discovered this thread and spent the first 30 seconds trying to find where you had hidden the pics... Then I realized what you were doing and forged on, thinking I may catch the current pic (and subsequently thinking how perfectly taoist it is of you to post the pics then remove them). In the process I got to follow the story and just perceive the reactions and side dialogue... What a uniquely rare way to view your garden good sir, through the descriptive awesomeness of your digital peers!
  10. Is the TTB exhausted yet....?

    Who is a master? Who decides? What defines a Grand Master over a master? These all seem like unanswerable questions to me. Yet distinctions can readily be made, between those with mastery and those without... so... again, who says who is a master of what?
  11. addiction to air, food and water

    HAMLET: O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Act 2: Scene 2
  12. Magnet versus Copper = "almost" Levitating

    That is tasty!
  13. Request for less disciplinary action against Apech

    Marblehead's not crabby, just a bit gruff.
  14. the spiral line

    I'm obsessing recently on the line between yin and yang. Far more interesting to me than the qualities of yin or yang is that oscillating line between them. Like love and hate for example, where in a situation I will shift from helping to harming, or vice versa. That is to say, I'm drawn to the inertial shift, the point of demarcation where what I define as one thing is inexorably shown to be both it and its opposite simultaneously. I watch a wave cresting. As it builds, its inertia becomes more and more yang until the moment where this line is crossed and the energy of yang can no longer sustain its inertia and yin is expressed. The wave loses coherence and settles in balance. The wave itself is not made of water. The wave is moving through water. To me it appears to express itself as 'opposites'. But there is only what is. This is the action of Tao and I am sensing my seeing yin and yang as separate is an illusion that there is yin and yang, these two things inter-playing. There simply is what is. And then there is nothing. And then there is no thing. And then... fuck if I know... I'm going to the beach.
  15. Feeding your demons

  16. Is the TTB exhausted yet....?

    all those naps I didn't want when I was four... I'll take those now.
  17. I received a death threat.

  18. Request for less disciplinary action against Apech

    Not to be too shelfish, but I love crab...
  19. I received a death threat.

    Tao treats all as straw dogs. Sun shines on the good and evil alike. Rain falls on all. Be prudent, but I like your expression of inner strength. Only you know your center.
  20. I received a death threat.

    Absolutely, I feel and think serenity should reign all life. But in the face of such a threat, my only serenity would come from resolution. Sometimes the conditions of life, which are magnitudes of power beyond us, will dictate the situation. Take appropriate action in a storm.
  21. I received a death threat.

    I'd trust in my instincts and logic. The same Tao flows in you and the individual threatening you. Sometimes it's appropriate to be the calm pool and be serene. Sometimes you must be the torrential flood and wash the problem away. Only you can know which, in my opinion. I wish you the best.
  22. What are you reading right now?

    Damo Mitchell: Daoist Nei Gong
  23. Any other Anime fans out there?

    Spirited Away Vampire Princess Miyu Mononoke Hime Ergo Proxy Mushishi Ghost in the Shell Totoro Avatar the last Airbender Vampire Hunter D Wolf's Rain Ninja Scroll Attack on Titan Sword of the Strangers Blade of the Immortal Secret of Nimh Paprika